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Home Shopping Network Tries To Promote Wii, Destroys TV Instead

October 18, 2009 in Video comments 14

Sometimes selling things on live TV isn't the best idea. The Home Shopping Network recently tried to promote the Nintendo Wii with Wii Sports and 15 Accessories. Instead, they showed the audience why it's a good idea not to get too enthusiastic while playing...



Skip forward to 5:00 for the muck-up.

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  • 2
    McClubbin Oct 18, 09
    Rules of a salesman: don't show the faults of the product you're trying to sell.

    And isn't $330 bucks highway robbery?
    • 3
      Big A2 Oct 19, 09
      Apparently it has 15 "accessories" as well.

      Which, in my opinion, should make the set cost less becuase of how much garbage they send you with it.
  • 0
    Storm Oct 18, 09
    It is. My friend showed me this a little while ago, pretty hilarious stuff. I watched the tennis racket smack the TV so many times. I really wonder if that guy was fired, haha.
  • 0
    HisServant77 Oct 18, 09
    Wow, they're SO . . . uh, staged in their talking, that's one of the funnier things about it!

    That, and wasn't he just standing too close to the TV and it hit the TV? Why'd he say it flew off and hit the TV? I'd think the truth would have sounded better! What sounds safer: "Don't stand too close to the TV, you might hit it!" or "Uh, as we just saw, this thing MAY fly off the remote even after I thought I really had it on!"
    EDIT:Re-watched it, maybe it did fly off?
  • 0
    RaidenXS Oct 19, 09
    9 mins? srsly? people need to learn to edit videos
  • 1
    Seproth Oct 19, 09
    These people are terrible man.

    There was the one who missed a rung on a latter and fell like 20 feet onto his back.

    Oh yeah, and the guy try to show how awesome a sword was by slamming it onto a counter top. It broke off and stabbed him.
    • 0
      HisServant77 Oct 19, 09
      I remember that sword one. I didn't know whether to laugh or to shake my head (or both), or wonder if the guy was alright!

      Haha, This job is beginning to seem more and more dangerous! Of course, as staged as they seem all the time, makes me wonder if the people are just . . . well . . . nevermind.
      • 0
        Seproth Oct 19, 09
        Yeah, there was concern at first. Til' you realize that it couldn't have done much more than break the skin.

        Then you feel more concerned about the guy who thought it was a good idea to give him a sharp object in the first place.
  • 1
    collector Oct 19, 09
    'Tennis elbow' term will be obviously replaced with 'tennis screen' soon.
  • 0
    BANDITO ATTACK Oct 19, 09
    so am i supposed to sit and watch 9 minutes oh this shit to figure out where the funny part is or what
    • 0
      Storm Oct 19, 09
      It's around the five minute mark.
      • 2
        Miss Razz Oct 19, 09
        Sorry about that. I'll add that to the article
  • 0
    King X2* Oct 19, 09
    Hahaha, what an idiot.

    And Bandito, before you start having a hissy fit, just fast forward to approximately 5:00 into the video to see the messup.
  • 0
    TurMoiL911 Oct 19, 09
    I think the only intelligent thing that guy did during this entire video was to stand in front of the part of the television that he messed up.

    How is the editted short version of this not on FailBlog yet ?

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